![]() ![]() ![]() Not realizing the witches have survived, Max and Allison open the spell book intending to reverse the spell on Binx. While the children are celebrating, the witches' curse revives them again. At Jacob Bailey High School, the children trap the witches in a kiln to burn them alive. Max, Dani, and Allison find their parents at the City Hall Halloween party, where Winifred enchants the partygoers to dance until they die. Winifred also reveals that the spell that brought them back only works on Halloween and unless they can suck the life out of one child, they'll turn to dust when the sun rises. They pursue the children across town using Mary's enhanced sense of smell. The witches try to acclimate to the 20th century but are horrified when they discover Halloween has become a festival of disguises. The witches eventually catch up with them and Winifred raises Billy Butcherson as a zombie to chase them on foot. But when she caught him making out with Sarah, she poisoned him and sewed his mouth shut so that he couldn't tell her secrets even in death. He takes the group to an old cemetery (as witches can't step foot on hallowed ground) where he shows them the graves of his sister and Billy Butcherson, who was once Winifred's lover. Escaping, Max steals Winifred's spell book (grimoire) on advice from Thackery, who now goes by his last name of Binx. The witches attempt to suck the soul of Dani, but Max comes to her rescue. Inside the Sanderson cottage, now a former museum, Max lights the Black Flame Candle and inadvertently resurrects the witches due to his virginity. In an effort to impress Allison, Max invites her to show him the Sanderson house to convince him the witches were real. On Halloween, Max takes his younger sister Dani out trick-or-treating, where they meet Max's new crush Allison. Three centuries later, on October 31, 1993, Max Dennison is feeling unsettled from his family's sudden move from Los Angeles, California, to Salem. Thackery decides to guard the cottage to ensure no one summons the witches. ![]() Before their execution, Winifred casts a spell that will resurrect the sisters during a full moon on All Hallows' Eve when any virgin lights the Black Flame Candle. Suddenly, the townsfolk, led by Thackery's friend, Elijah, and Binx's father, arrest the sisters and sentence them to be hanged for the murder of Thackery and Emily. Thackery confronts the witches but is transformed into a black cat cursed to live forever with his guilt for not saving Emily. At their cottage, the witches cast a spell on Emily to absorb her youth and regain their own, murdering her in the process. There are also two Salem residents dressed as their characters, the devil and "Medusa," for Halloween.On October 31, 1693, in Salem, Massachusetts, Thackery Binx witnesses his little sister, Emily, being whisked away to the woods by the Sanderson sisters, three witches named Winifred, Sarah, and Mary. Hocus Pocus 2 also pays tribute to Garry and Penny Marshall's original Hocus Pocus cameos by showing a pair of Salem residents watching their scene on TV. However, their salt circle is hilariously thwarted in one scene by the pair of Roombas that Mary has been riding around town as a makeshift broom - another callback to the original, where the trio had to ride a broom, a mop and a vacuum. Just like Allison in the original film, the teens in the sequel know to use salt to defend against the sisters' magic. (Additionally, the book is shown to include a "cat transformation" spell, which would one day be used on Thackery Binx!) Hidden Tributes We also see that Sarah's "Come Little Children" song, which she uses in the original Hocus Pocus to enrapture the kids of Salem, was first sung to the sisters by Hannah Waddingham's Witch Mother, who bestows the beloved spell book to Winnifred on her 16th birthday. The fan excitement for this has been unlike anything I have done before in my life." Billy has been my answer, because there are layers to him that I wanted to find out more about - and with the sequel coming, its like, now I get to. "I've been asked many times what character have you played in your 30-something years that you want to see again or visit again. Jones told ET at the Hocus Pocus 2 premiere that he's always wanted to revisit his character from the original film. Gilbert promises to help set the legend straight after he and Billy team up to try and stop the sisters from wreaking havoc on the town. The new film also ties up a few loose threads in regards to Billy Butcherson's (Doug Jones) story, revealing that he and Winnifred weren't actually in a relationship, per se, they simply shared one kiss. There's also a passing reference to the sisters' bus ride from the first film, when Mary refers to a car as a "very small bus." From Sarah's "Amok, amok, amok!" to Mary's "Buh bye!" to Winnifred's "Boooooook!" the sequel is full of fun callback lines that will hearken fans right back the original. ![]()
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